Hi I'm Grant the Polite Guy and I was homeless for about a year and a half. So much has happened since then. I write here to help bring homeless awareness looking at the world through a homeless person's point of view.

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Monday, September 19, 2016

Comming together as a Community Goodna

WOW what a day yesterday was, but first a quick recap.
Over 1,000 of JBS beef workers have had huge hours cut coming down to 2 days a
week and some weeks no work at all and all this has been happening since
January this year. A lot of these workers have been there for 10+ years.
This means a lot of these families are now having trouble making “ends meat” so
to speak.
Buying food for their families or paying rent?

Doing a joint effort with Helen from “Goodna Street Life”
and “Signal Flare” we collected huge amounts of food and toiletries with a huge
amount coming from “Share the Dignity”
We all did a call out and asking the community to come together and help people
in need when they needed it most. Helpers, food and toiletries came from
everywhere.

Pallets of food, Boxes of everything and people brought car
loads of stuff they had collected from friends and families all came together
to help. It really was an amazing sight-seeing so many people wanting to help.

About 600 worker families that had been doing it so tough
and hitting hardship came and collected only what they needed so others could
collect too. There were “Thank you’s” everywhere. A lot of the people helping
even had to step away once or twice because it was so heartfelt to see such
need.

I’m sorry to say that even though we had collected so much
we still didn’t have enough food or toiletries. I felt so bad that here we were
saying to these people we know your in a bad way and to come down and we will
help you then when they turn up there’s nothing there for them. I quickly
grabbed a pen and paper and started writing down names and phone numbers saying
I’ll quickly do a call out and get food and toiletries to them within the next
few days.

So over the next 2-3 days I’m collecting as much food and
things as I can to quickly get them out there to the families that didn’t get
anything.

Also because of such hardship we are doing the event again
but this time in a much bigger way with a lot more food and toiletries. On the
1st of OCT at “Goodna Street Life” 2 Mill St, Goodna from 10am.

So once again I am asking please help us to help others, we
need any types of FOOD and TOILETRIES so we can give for free to these people
doing it so tough. If many people donate a few things then it adds up to be
truck loads.

Thank you.

Now this next bit I’m very very excited about. WOOHOO

Everyone knows I make such little money as a Big Issue
vendor but I try to help as many people as I can.

I have started a new referring business that is going to be
awesome, here’s how it works.

You go to the site and compare things like power, mobile
phones deal and even home internet. It could even be the same company you
already use. For example if you wanted a new mobile phone, go to the site and
click mobile phone and it’ll bring up Vodafone website with my link attached.
You get the same deal you would with Vodafone anyway but they’ll pay me 10%
every time you pay your bill for a referring commission.

I could use this money to help so many more people in a huge
way and people get the same deal they were on. It don’t matter which company
you’re on, please compare if you get same or better deal and switch using my
site.

The best news is that it’s not Australia, this site works in
lots of countries around the world. Just click your country flag and it’ll
bring up your local services. If anyone wants help setting up their own site
let me know and I’ll be happy to help you set it up for you.

Have you clicked to site yet? Just check it out and see how
easy it is.

I’d like to ask everyone though when you choose a service or
package could you please email me your name and what service you did so I can
track and make sure it went under my link right. Accidents happens.

About Me

Hi I Grant the polite guy. I'm a big issue vendor that sells mags in the city. I spend most of my time saying "Have a nice day" to people that walk pass. I would see thousands of people a day and see alot of things that I am happy to share with you. If you stand in one spot long enough you'll see the world come to you.
I hope you enjoy the stories and have a nice day.